Will this do?
Posted on 01/20/2005 7:30:43 PM PST by USArmySpouse
Edited on 02/04/2005 5:22:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A picture's worth a thousand words. My question: Why didn't the security guards escort the PROTESTERS out of the building??? Disgusting.
Updates:
To: StarCMC; trussell; Brad's Gramma; Howie66; speedy; Hondo1952; Lando Lincoln; ...
AND- Would you like the number to call someone at Students against the War who organized this stunt? Well here you go!
This is an email which I received regarding the latest in the case of the students who broke the law and ran the Army recruiter off the Seattle Campus. Please ping anyone who you think would be interested. Perhaps someone can freep their press conference????
________________________________________________________ This is the email
hi, this is a follow up email concerning the press release sent out from Students Against War, a Seattle Central Community College student association.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th there was a walkout on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students gathered around the table of two military recruiters. The recruiters were then escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
Students Against War along with members of the outside peace community will be holding a press conference tomarrow at 12:00 noon on the south plaza of SCCC.
if you have any questions please contact Gerald, a SAW representive, at: 1-206-329-2276 ___________________________________________________
spelling errors belongs to the stupid students against the war....
To: All
Students Against War will hold a press conference regarding threatened disciplinary action by the Seattle Central Community College administration on Thursday February 3rd at 12 noon on the south plaza of Seattle Central Community College.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th, students walked out on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students surrounded a table of three military recruiters and chanted anti-war slogans until they were escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
SAW's official statement in response to the Seattle Central Administration:
The group Students Against War is not responsible for the actions taken against the military recruiters on the 20th of January. We do not have the authority to speak on behalf of the individuals involved.
Any disciplinary action taken against Students Against War is without precedent or basis. SAW engaged in two permitted actions on that day, which included the rally in the south plaza and the student march to Westlake Plaza. The congregation around the military recruiters was a spontaneous event carried out by people on their own accord. SAW cannot represent these individuals or their actions, and cannot be legally held accountable.
As to the actions themselves, students were expressing their feelings about the intrusion of the military into our schools. Military recruitment on campuses nationwide has been stepped up along with military spending, while funding for education has been repeatedly cut. Military recruiters on our campus prey on the lack of options for low-income students. SAW does not support sending our low-income youth to fight and die in a war that is unjust and unfair.
Students Against War is sorry, but not about the actions of the 20th. SAW is sorry that soldiers in Iraq are dying. SAW is sorry that billions of public tax dollars are being pumped bullet by bullet into foreign soil while increasing numbers of Americans live near or under the poverty line. SAW is supporting the troops by working to bring them home.
These are our sisters and brothers. If Sgt. Due was in Iraq, one among three military recruiters asked to leave, SAW would support his right to life and human decency by bringing him home. When our friends are sent to kill and die because they didn't have the money to pay for college, we say bring them home. Why should American soldiers face death and mutilation for the lies of the Bush administration? We say bring them home. We, as Students Against War, ask you as friends and families of soldiers, to defend those troops by bringing them home NOW.
To contact Students Against War, please call our spokesperson Gerald at 1-206-329-2276
To: kittymyrib
Anti-war group targets recruiters Effort launched after campus clash By JAKE ELLISON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
A mob of Seattle Central Community College students chased military recruiters off campus last month, after a tense confrontation. Now a student anti-war group is stepping up efforts to keep them out for good.
Students Against War has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading administrators to order a halt to on-campus military recruiting.
The group points to a November ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Philadelphia-based court held that a college opposed to the policy barring gays and lesbians in the armed forces has a First Amendment right to protest by blocking access to military recruiters.
Central students opposed to the war in Iraq have been fighting the presence of military recruiters all year. The group organized a protest to coincide with President Bush's inauguration Jan. 20, but it started sooner than scheduled when several hundred students surrounded two Army recruiters.
The students hurled insults and water bottles, according to witnesses, forcing the recruiters to flee under the protection of campus security officers. There were no reports of injuries.
Administrators initially threatened to take disciplinary action against Students Against War, which denied any responsibility for the incident.
Yesterday, however, officials backed off their demand that the group apologize to the recruiters or be stripped of their affiliation with the college.
Central President Mildred Ollee said she dropped the ultimatum after discovering that members of other student groups were involved in the confrontation.
"I'm not prepared to go on a witch hunt," she said. "We did the best we could do in this, and I believe the students have learned something and we're going to move forward."
Leaders of the anti-war group told a small crowd of students yesterday that they intend to press for the military recruiting ban.
"We do not want the military in our schools asking our friends and family to fight for a war that is wrong," Nicole Thomas said. "We want recruiters out of our schools."
The incident was captured in a newspaper photograph that has made its way into conservative Web blogs. That spurred a wave of e-mails to Central administrators denouncing the conduct of the students.
One of the recruiters involved in the confrontation, Sgt. Jeffrey Due, said he was stunned how quickly things got out of hand. "I was in outright shock that they were protesting me," he said.
Due had been warned about the student walk-out demonstration, but said he didn't expect that kind of trouble. "They were all going by making off-hand comments and saying 'no war.' We just waved at them," Due said. "Five minutes later, there was just a mob of 500 people surrounding the table."
Due said he was hit in the head with newspapers, and water bottles whizzed by, pounding the vending machine and wall behind him.
The flap has energized Central's anti-war effort, sparking the petition drive. The group's goal is to get recruiters off campus "by legal means," said spokesman Gerald Lisi.
He argued that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is in conflict with the college's code barring discrimination on campus. While petitions circulate, the group is consulting with attorneys and researching the issue.
But Ollee pointed to a government rule that allows federal money to be withheld from any college that refuses to give military recruiters access to students and student-contact information.
"I am under the law and will comply with the law as long as it is the law," she said.
P-I reporter Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8346 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com
It was with the hope of avoiding such that I wrote it. What these kids and their professors and parents don't realize is that our enemies, particulalry the radical Islamics, would love to particularly "slaughter" them, and do it on TV, because they are tyranically against such the freedom to display and act out such depravity, while here in America they are free to do it precisely because of people like that Staff Sgt put their life on the line for their rights...themselves risking death at the hands of the monsters so these kids can live in safety here at home.
Again, how pathetic and ignorantly ungrateful that mob is.
against all enemies, foreign and domestic ....
Looks like we've identified some of the "domestic" enemies.
Bunch of retards.
"while here in America they are free to do it precisely because of people like that Staff Sgt put their life on the line for their rights...themselves risking death at the hands of the monsters so these kids can live in safety here at home."
I know, it is very disheartening to see a display like this. I grew up in the late 60's early 70's, in Boston of all places. I saw things of this nature time and time again. I was accepted to two ivy league schools, but turned them down for Boston College, which, at that time, had a "zero tolerance" policy for campus unrest. Now even BC has slipped into the abyss.
Best regards,
Tim
Just a bunch of freeloading kids. Ill wager the qualifications to get into this CC is ones ability to fog up a hand held mirror:)
I am so disgusted that any learning institution would allow such thuggery, but not surprised.
My protest warrior leader monitors leftie web sites and found out they were trying to block recruiters at our local high schools, and planned to put flyers all over the students cars in the school parking lot. I called the principal of the high school in my daughter's school district and told him what was being planned. He was incensed and assured me that anyone caught near the students' cars would be arrested. He also said that he would not alter the forms about recruiting in any way, and that recruiters are WELCOME. But I urge people to check in with your local public learning institutions, especially at the high school level. The America-hating, military-hating left are trying to subvert recruiting at every level. Don't let the traitors do this in your town.
Hard to say. Logic would make me think that the new sheriff would at least make an attempt to be a hard nose like Reichert, female or not, but logic has no place in King County
I was just thinking the same thing! Please, if anyone knows how we can send some words of encouragement to Sgt. Due, please post it here, and ping me, please. I feel so bad for this brave man, who has to listen to the taunts and vile name calling of these jackals.
Thank you, thank you for this info. I can't wait to pass it out to my contacts.
I really hope some other people keep the pressure on them.
I want an apology from the students to the Army and sensitivity training for the students.
President’s Office (206) 587-4144
That's an interesting point. Unfortunately, whenever fascists get into power, innocent people tend to have their basic rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness) revoked; the same when communists get into power; they share that unhappy legacy (Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro--fascist or communist, they were all maniacal monsters).
I prefer the term patriot. It is more uniquely American, don't you think?
President’s Office (206) 587-4144
I have also contacted the Army recruiting office in Seattle to leave a message for Sgt. Due and to keep updated on this story.
I say let em rip Bayb- and then ask all your friends to do the same!!
I want an apology to the Army-and some sensitivity training for those students
Every one of those young men and women who serve - to their credit - walked into the recruiter's office BY THEIR OWN CHOICE. Nobody forced them. Those protesters need to look at the fine people who defend this country, and do so proudly. Those same fine men and women afford them the luxury of protesting.
These protesters disgust me. They are not deserving of the freedoms they enjoy. They are so quick to whine and complain in their dissatisfaction with our President and our country - and they, in a sense, spit on those who make sure they have the right to voice that dissatisfaction.
Will this do?
Thanks trussell for this ping...you certainly have my help in this!!
I prefer the term maniacal monsters. Why are you calling them patriots?
Thanks. With the time difference between east coast and left coast, I should be able to get a few cranky calls placed.
Note to self when teaching...next time a planned walkout is to occur, ensure a 50% final grade pop quiz is immediately administered, with a "no make up work" clause inserted in the syllabus.
My American Heritage dictionary doesn't say it's a dictatorship of the extreme right, but then again I have an old one, copyright 1982. I guess it was written before the PC police changed the definition. <;)
The rabble of today are NOT disciplined, precisely because a leader of the carisma of Hitler has not arisen. It may be that a leader like Adolph cannot arise in today's US because e are not in the dire and hopeless straits Germany was in at the time he gained power.
vaudine
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